Thomas Williams: 127 books

Book cover of Life, Death, and Meaning

Life, Death, and Meaning

Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

by David Benatar, Margaret A. Boden, Peter Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
Book cover of A Life in Medicine

A Life in Medicine

A Literary Anthology

by Randy Testa, Wendell Berry, Raymond Carver
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012

“Excellent” poetry and prose about physicians and their patients, by Raymond Carver, Kay Redfield Jamison, Rachel Naomi Remen, and more (Library Journal). A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession, who are struggling to keep up with...
Book cover of Understanding, Dismantling, and Disrupting the Prison-to-School Pipeline
by Sheree N. Alexander, Mariella I. Arredondo, Tabetha Bernstein-Danis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

This volume examines the school-to-prison pipeline, a concept that has received growing attention over the past 10–15 years in the United States. The “pipeline” refers to a number of interrelated concepts and activities that most often include the criminalization of students and student behavior,...
Book cover of The Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments
by Thomas J. Santner, Brian J. Williams, William I. Notz
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

This book describes methods for designing and analyzing experiments conducted using computer code in lieu of a physical experiment. It discusses how to select the values of the factors at which to run the code (the design of the computer experiment). It also provides techniques for analyzing the resulting data so as to achieve these research goals.
Book cover of Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer
by Robert K. Hale, Thomas L. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016

Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer contains all the necessary tools and strategies to successfully launch and grow a professional design business in the competitive world of interior design. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience, this book includes case studies, and personal anecdotes...
Book cover of Learning Culture through Sports

Learning Culture through Sports

Perspectives on Society and Organized Sports

by Doug Abrams, Cheryl Cooky, Rylee Dionigi
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

In today's culture, sports wield a weight influence; this influence, however, is rarely examined. Similar to the first edition, this second edition of Learning Culture Through Sports provides coaches, educators, parents, and others dealing with students and athletes with an engaging and critical context...
Book cover of Intelligence and the National Security Strategist

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist

Enduring Issues and Challenges

by Matthew M. Aid, Christopher M. Andrew, Michael R. Bromwich
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...
Book cover of Assessing Organization Agility

Assessing Organization Agility

Creating Diagnostic Profiles to Guide Transformation

by Christopher G. Worley, Thomas D. Williams, Edward E. Lawler III
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014

In-depth agility evaluation for a more efficient response to change Assessing Organization Agility provides a clear, concise roadmap to improved implementation of change. Written by two organizational researchers at USC's Center for Effective Organizations and a management consultant with Strategy&...
Book cover of Health Humanities Reader
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Book cover of Advancing Excellence and Public Trust in Government
by George Amedee, David Anderson, Cal Clark
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

Over the last four decades the public trust in government in the United States has fallen dramatically due to a 'perfect storm' of contributing factors, such as a seemingly never ending string of political scandals, partisan polarization and toxic attack politics, and miserable failures to respond...
Book cover of Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering
by Tim Menzies, Laurie Williams, Thomas Zimmermann
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016

Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering presents the best practices of seasoned data miners in software engineering. The idea for this book was created during the 2014 conference at Dagstuhl, an invitation-only gathering of leading computer scientists who meet to identify and discuss...
Book cover of 5 Steps to a 5 500 AP Psychology Questions to Know by Test Day
by Lauren Williams, Thomas A. editor - Evangelist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010

Organized for easy reference and crucial practice, coverage of all the essential topics presented as 500 AP-style questions with detailed answer explanations 5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP Psychology Questions to Know by Test Day is tailored to meet your study needs--whether you’ve left it to the...
Book cover of Blacktastic! The Blacktasticon 2018 Anthology
by Alan Jones, Azziza Sphinx, Balogun Ojetade
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018

What is the Black Fantastic? It's Sword and Soul, Steamfunk, Cyberfunk, Science Fiction, Real Urban Fantasy, Paranormal and so much more. It's creators from Africa and the African Diaspora expressing and exploring concepts without the boundaries and restrictions often found in the publishing industry....
Book cover of Into the Mountains
by Thomas H. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015

Into the Mountains is the story of two young peoples struggle to survive while the Civil War rages around them. Boyd Houston is a Confederate soldier on parole after being captured by Union forces in West Virginia. When Lexus Saunders asks for his help, he returns from his home in South Carolina to...
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